Amazon - Fire Kids Edition - 7" - Tablet - 16GB 7th Generation, 2017 Release - Blue

Parents! Are you tired of your phone or tablet being commandeered by drooling sticky handed bandits? Are you done with your apps and photos disappearing after a 40 minute Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Appisode binge? Are you fed up with cracked and damaged phones by no fault of your own? Well, let me tell you about the Fire 7 Kids Edition Tablet! At 1/7th the cost of an iPad and Lifeproof case, you can prevent your phone from becoming a $700 sticky cracked brick. The Fire 7 is your affordable answer. At just under $100, for the 16GB model, you can entertain your child for up to 8 hours. However, our professional toddler testing center has seen times closer to 6 hours in real world testing. Additionally, the charging time is a little slow; taking a few hours to charge fully. However, no child needs to spend 6 straight hours looking at a screen. The weight is lite, and with the case, it can withstand most drops from toddler height. We have only had it for a week, but our team of toddler researchers will continue to test to bring you the best insight to this device.

Overall this is a very nice tablet for the price. It comes with a protective shell cover so that if it is dropped by a child, it will likely not break. The shell cover comes in blue, yellow and pink. I bought the pink one for my 3 year old daughter. Thinking that this is a true android tablet, I assumed it would have Youtube and Youtube Kids on it. But, I soon discovered that this tablet does not have anything on it dealing with Google. My daughter loves Youtube kids, so this was not going to work for us. I googled the issue and found out that Amazon and Google are engaged in a fight and as a result no Google products exist on Amazon products. Clearly without Youtube kids, this tablet was going to be useless to us. So, I quickly went back to BB and returned it for the Samsung kids tab E.

I purchased this item for my 2 yr old to start learning. The first device I had loaded up for set up quickly and then everything on the device was so slow my daughter had no interest in it. Kids dont have patience. Also several apps you would start and it would shut down. So we exchanged for another of the same thinking we had a bad one. The second one took much longer for set up and updates. Once open it was still pretty slow and apps still shutting off. After much frustration for my child I took it back and simply replaced with a regular Samsung Tablet and downloaded the Freetime App used for the device and it's much better. Based on my experience with the Kindle Fire and the Freetime App I would not recommend the Kindle but just buy a Samsung and download the Freetime app. The only difference is you download everything from the Google play store instead.

I don't usually write reviews but I'm super impressed with this product I just had to share for those in question. I have 5 kids and have been through more tablets than I can count! I bought this for my 3 year old and was worried about the stability of this product as she is very rough (has a tendency to throw things, etc). This tablet is by far the best tablet I've purchased and is worth every penny!! Believe it or not the case provides considerable protection. She's thrown it, stepped on it, etc and it is still going strong. It's very kid friendly and easy to use plus it comes with a years subscription to endless kid appropriate games and videos from the Disney channel. She absolutely loves it!! Nothing negative to report. I'd buy all over again in a heartbeat!! Greatttttt product!! Well worth it!!

First, the included apps and feature that is free for the first two years along with a warranty that if my 3 year old, which was my intended target of this particular device, breaks it, they will fix it, you cant go wrong. Now, it is great for my 3 year old. Not so much for me. For the price, you get what you pay for. Its slow, crappy, and total garbage for any use beyond what my three year old use it for. But she loves it. And that is all that matter. So, would I recommend it? Yes, IF you are buying it for a child under the age of so-so. No, IF you are buying it for either an adult or a teenager. There are better tablets out there for that group. But if you ARE buying for a child, I promise you, you will get your money worth and they, and you, will be very happy with the device and its features.

Bought this because of a cross country trip my family and I went on. Would highly recommend so far hasn't broken from my 15 month old using it and even if she did there is a warranty to replace it if it breaks within two years from the date of purchase so that gives me ease of mind. Comes preloaded with kid friendly apps and gives you parental control to give or restrict access to apps or whatever not much of an issue for me as my daughter is to young to use the tablet without a little help in the first place, but I do know parental controls are there. Although it is technically android it does not come with the play store if you are familiar with that, you can get the play store on it just google how. 4 out of 5 because of lack of google apps I like amazon but I like my Google as well.

We bought this before a trip to Disneyland in which we would be flying for our 2 year old, so we could load it with kids shows, and puzzles and educational games to keep him occupied on the airplane, and it works great, it's your standard android tablet with a nice hard rubber/foam case around it to help protect it from what children do best, Drop Things. Our 2 year old has only had it for a few weeks, but it's survived thus far, and honestly, worth the admission price for a solid small size android tablet. You can designate adult and child accounts, so child accounts cant do what an adult account can do, etc. Battery life is pretty great on it as well.

This is a decent option for young kids that you might be looking for their first tablet. Amazon does a good job creating an interface that you can control what your child has access to, but beware of the "FreeTime" setup as this is a pay-to-subscribe service they very quietly force you to sign up for as a "first year free" promotion. My young child will probably destroy this tablet by time I need to buy something better, so I'm not too worried about the cons of this budget device. It would be great if there was a way to lock the screen into a specific app/video so that when they touch the screen it doesn't jump out of the app. I can recommend this product as a budget tablet for kids.